For the purposes of the relevant Maltese laws which provide for the conditions relevant to the granting of a permit to non-Maltese residents seeking to acquire immovable property and which cater for the value of immovable property, the Director General of the National Statistics Office has established the immovable property price index at 148.44 as on the 1st April, 2013. This represents a change of 3.86 per cent from 2012.